Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for May 22, 2020

And yet Donny Boy continues to make COVID-19 the Powerball in this Lottery.

Pretty dark…………and right on the money.

At least in the Shirley Jackson version only one had to die horribly.

I assume the protestors profess to be Pro Life Christians. The fact that they want to spread a horrible disease because of haircuts and use guns to emphasize their ire is quite the opposite of what they say they believe. They say the fetus needs to be protected, shouldn’t the 95,000 dead have had the same right???

Quick someone tell Jared Knucklehead so he can fly in emergency Hydroblahblahblah at a nominal fee to save them all!!!

‘Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon’ in the original. Great job, Ruben.

That’s the American Way. Give me the money!

The Population Bomb fizzles.

With this lottery everyone is a loser.

May the odds be ever in your favor.

…”and then they were upon her…”

“We’ll be coughing up blood

In all the old familiar places"…..

So was grandma the winner or the loser?

(Reminds me a bit of the draft lottery.)

Thanks, Google! As monopolies go, I might not ever love you quite the way I loved Ma Bell, but I do enjoy our time together.

Fiction June 26, 1948 Issue

The Lottery • By Shirley Jackson

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery

Tearful farewell to Ma Bell • Art Buchwald, 1983

“I never told anyone this before, but you were the only monopoly I ever loved.”